Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-08-25
FARiL NOTES.

Flower-growing about the railroad
stations is pleasingly on the increase.
Calves that are fed on milk or Cruel
need water as much as any stock.
Clean ont the feet of the horses ey-
cry evening after their days work Is
done,
Clean out the cellar and clean up the
yard if these matters are not already
attended to.
Guineas and turkeys are excellent
foragcrs, and destroy large number
Of insects in a season.
There are good and rich mixers in
all breeds of cows-only and always
excepting the pump-handle breed.
Begin Bookkeeping with one or two
colonies and study the subject us you
enlarge and extend the business.
The stems of roses having borne
blooms should be cut back to a strong
bud, which will soon push out new
stems.
You cannot grow plants with ''wet
feet" Farmers had therefore better
have tiles in the ground than on their
heads.
Sluggish horses are generally made
so by the way they are handled. A
lazy man is pretty apt to have lazy
horses
There is no one thing that is so
much required nowadays on the av-
erage farm as to be thoroughly sys-
tcmatic.
The man who warns himself up
every morning grooming his horses
will be well remuuerated for his
trouble
A new, cheap and effective insect
killer is composed of one part of mu-
riate of potash in one thousand parts
of water
The importation of American -four
into the United Kingdom so far this
year has largely exceeded last years
receipts.
Grade cattle, the product of polled
bulls whether Aberdeen Angus, Gall
oway, or Norfolk seldom or never
have horns.
Weighing a cows milk will not
cause her to give any more milk, but
may cause her owner TO substitute a
better one.
The more an acre will produce the
larger the profit and the better you
can cultivate that acre, the more it
will produce.
Most farmers can keep a few hives
of bees to advantage. Honey, like
fruit, should often be found at the
farmers table.
The demand for plum trees is very
heavy from all over the country, show
ing that growers sec their value and
plant accordingly.
1t is said that not less than two
million pounds of dried sage leaves
are used annually in the United States
for various purposes.
You will be likely to save trouble
by speaking kindly to your horses ey-
cry time YOU approach them in the
stable or elsewhere.
If you wish to raise good many
fowls YOU must keep them in separate,
small flocks. Large numbers do not
flourish well together.
the neighboring home market, trust
ing to the large towns only
Rub the horses legs once a day
with verv dilute carbolic acid This
discouragcs the flies, A horse that
works and fights flies does two days
work in one
Undertake to cultivate no more than
you can manage WELL and increase
your acres as You increase your abil-
ity, and your acres and ability will in
crease step by step.
1t is claimed that more damage is
done by the gentle bulls than by those
that are vicious, and the advice is to
watch them, as the gentlest of bulls
is 4 treacherous animal
Under the present law now in force
in New Hampshire, requ'"ing that all
olcomargarine sold in that state shah
be colored pink, it is said that none of
the stuff whatever is sold.
When the cocks have been picking
each other with the combs and wat
ties bleeding profusely, pour strong
alum water over their heads, which
will cause the bleeding to cease.
a French paper says that petroleum
destroys all insects, and hanishes rats
and mice, and that water slightly im-
prcgnated with petroleum. applied to
plants affected with insects will de-
stroy them.
Ducks thrive best with running
stream of water To swim in, yet they
get along very well with plenty of
drinking water only, provided there is
enough to supply them with an oeea-
siuual bath
The British Dairy Farmers Associl-
tom is going TO establish dairy schools
which shall train students in the art
of making dairy products, and, if pos
-lhlc. pay its way in selling cheese and
butter made from purchased milk.
Copperas Is a splendid medicine TO
keep on hand for poultry. Whom
they have the roup wash their heads
with solution of it, and put some Of
the solution in the drinking water as
a tonic. 1t provides them with soIute
;,.,n which l. necessary.